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Mahatma Gandhi on booze bottle: Rajya Sabha slams insult

TNN | Updated: Jul 3, 2019, 5:32 IST

NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha chairperson Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday asked external affairs minister S Jaishankar to take immediate appropriate action in the matter of a company in Israel using a picture of Mahatma Gandhi on liquor bottles. Raising the issue during zero hour, Aam Admi Party member Sanjay Singh said several incidents of such insults to Gandhi had come to the fore in recent days. There were reports about the use of Gandhi’s image on liquor bottle by Maka Brewery, an Israel based company, he added.